Camera is optional. With camera + mic you get the full split-screen video. Without them, you can still play by typing and download a captioned avatar video.
BRENDA: Pick an interviewer, turn your camera on if you want, then press Start Interview.
YOU: —
Typed answers always work. Voice answers work best in Chrome.
Recording starts automatically with the interview (split-screen canvas + your mic, if you allowed it).
How this works — and the honest limits
- Everything runs in your browser. No server, no paid APIs, no keys, no signup. The interviewer is drawn on a canvas, her brain is local JavaScript, her voice is your device's built-in speech voice.
- Recording: the download captures the split-screen visuals, the burned-in captions (so her lines are readable in the video), and your microphone if you allowed it.
- Known limit: browser system text-to-speech audio cannot be captured into a recording on all browsers (browser / OS restriction). That is why her lines are always drawn as captions on the video itself.
- Voice answers: speech recognition is Chrome-best. Safari / Firefox: type instead — typing always works, with or without camera or mic permission.
- Denied a permission? No problem. The interview still runs in full — you just get a placeholder camera panel instead of your face.